Improvement in fountain-pens



-EEroE PATENT.

GEORGE F. HAWKES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNTAIN-PENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,291, dated April 2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. HAwEEs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fountain-Pens, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates` to that class of pensy known as fountain-pen holders,77 in which the object is to provide means for obtaining a constant supply of ink to the pen during use 5 their construction being such that the holder shall conta-in an elastic tubular ink -reservoir, together with a means for controlling the feed. My invention consists in the construction of a removable metallic feed or supply-tube7 connected with the elastic ink-reservoir, and an adjustable presser provided with a linger-piece.

Referring to the drawing, G is a reservoir made of rubber or other suitable llexible ma terial. F is the feed or supply tube. Thefeed tube is surrounded by the nose C, which performs the double function of retaining the pen in the holder, and in assisting to form an airtight joint between the feeding tube and the flexible reservoir. Bis the holder, which may be vmade of wood, metal, or hard rubber. lt is slotted at a point near its lower end for the passage `of the projection or finger-piece of presser H. The open end of the flexible resn ervoir is drawn down over the feeding tube F into the space between it and the annular rim formed by nose O. The presser H is pressed into the holder A until the projection or iinger-piece rises through the slot in the holder B,when the reservoir, nose, 85e., are pushed up into place. The air is forced out of the reservoir by means of the presser H, its place being supplied by the inliowing of the ink. rlhe projection upon the presser H forms a rest for the finger, which enables the user to control the amount of ink fed from the reservoir. The elastic reservoir with its feeding-tube may be withdrawn from the handle when desired, and also the presser H.

Having-thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The combination of the removable feeding tube F O with flexible reservoir G and adjustable presser H, all arranged Within the handle B, substantially as shown and described.

' GEO. F. HAWKES.

Witnesses:

OscAE V. DAYTON, GEORGE GARDNER. 

